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Date, create, and share!

Assuming the role of a male high school student in Japan, the player will meet, interact with, and date a number of female characters with the goal of winding up with one of them at the end of a 101-day calendar. Yeah, you've seen this all before...or have you?

In other romance sims, there's little reason to replay the game again once you've pursued all the characters you're interested in. But Heartache 101 allows for a variable female cast. The number of characters in the game is completely open-ended!

You can create new characters and add them to the game, share them with other users, and add characters created by other users. You can create the images for custom characters from a template, or use images you created yourself, or images from any source. (only "standing" images of characters can be imported; there is no event CG in the game) A simple scripting language is provided for writing story events. You can also customize some of the music.

The game system itself is in part a visual novel interface with gameplay that include conversational decision-making, board game-like mechanics, stat management, financial management, and more.

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Since I've been asked many times if I would ever make a sequel to Heartache....

Well this is not a sequel. In very many ways it's radically different. But some might find that it partially retains a bit of the same feel?

So I'm posting the first public screenshot here, and whoever is interested, look for a game page up in the next week or two with the title "Where One Citizen". Game is not complete yet, but after 10 years of development it's about time to start showing it!
Luck and strategy both play a part in determining who you meet during the school day
Characters and story created by Marrend, one of the completed content packages made by users
Two of the built-in characters you'll be meeting in the main story
You can remember up to 9 mental notes about a character

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Kiya
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02/17/2014 04:59 PM
sugoooooiii!!! ^_^
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/17/2014 07:15 PM
author=Zarya7
Hey, anyone know's how to get Noriko's true ending?...


I think it might be tied to what you do when/if you find her notes? I'm not quite sure, to be honest.

author=Kiya
sugoooooiii!!! ^_^


BWAH-HA-HA! Er, I mean, thanks a bunch!
dewelar
627
02/18/2014 12:02 AM
author=Marrend
author=Zarya7
Hey, anyone know's how to get Noriko's true ending?...
I think it might be tied to what you do when/if you find her notes? I'm not quite sure, to be honest.


That's correct. It's a bit tricky, but if you've been through the sequence where you find her notes once, that should give you a clue to which attribute you need to have boosted to pass the check.
Zarya7
5
02/18/2014 05:28 AM
Oh okay. But I had all my stats above 60. Wow, that means I have to increase even more.
dewelar
627
02/18/2014 08:05 AM
author=Zarya7
Oh okay. But I had all my stats above 60. Wow, that means I have to increase even more.


Do you mean you had them there when you talked to her about the pad, or at the end of the game? It's the first one that matters, and 60 would do the trick.
Mute
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02/18/2014 08:09 AM
author=Zarya7
Oh okay. But I had all my stats above 60. Wow, that means I have to increase even more.

Every single stat was above 60 when you found the notes? That should definitely have passed the check.
Zarya7
5
02/18/2014 10:22 AM
I had them by the end of the game...I guess I'll just have to try again.
Bizkit
0
02/20/2014 02:45 PM
I've come across a glitch. The game had been working fine, but now, on the screen where you can choose 'Next Day,' 'Save Game,' etc., the cursor is stuck at 'Quit to Title.' If I press an arrow key, the cursor immediately goes back to 'Quit to Title.' The strange thing is that it only stays stuck in full screen mode. When I switch back to windowed mode, it works just fine.

Edit: No matter what screen mode I'm in, the cursor stays stuck on the 'Spend Orbs' screen. Both problems seem to come and go.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
02/20/2014 07:44 PM
I wonder if this has something to do with where your mouse is? I know that trying to use the keyboard when the mouse is hovering over an option has that kind of effect.
BDFalcon
0
02/21/2014 12:22 AM
author=Bizkit
I've come across a glitch. The game had been working fine, but now, on the screen where you can choose 'Next Day,' 'Save Game,' etc., the cursor is stuck at 'Quit to Title.' If I press an arrow key, the cursor immediately goes back to 'Quit to Title.' The strange thing is that it only stays stuck in full screen mode. When I switch back to windowed mode, it works just fine.

Edit: No matter what screen mode I'm in, the cursor stays stuck on the 'Spend Orbs' screen. Both problems seem to come and go.


author=Marrend
I wonder if this has something to do with where your mouse is? I know that trying to use the keyboard when the mouse is hovering over an option has that kind of effect.


That's definitely likely probably the problem. It was doing the exact same thing when I started playing and it drove me nuts for a few hours till I figured it out. Personally, I just moved the mouse over until I was confident the cursor wasn't touching anything, then I unplugged it.
MoonCanvas
616
04/23/2014 10:05 AM
Funny story. I spent the entire game trying to get Keika's ending but I randomly end up with the non-generic ending of some red-haired girl with a ponytail. I can't even remember her name. All of a sudden she kisses me underneath a tree and I was all like "okay, just another event or something" but yeah, turned out I won her over. And to think shortly before this, she popped up at a date spot with me/Keika and began bitching at me.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
04/23/2014 11:07 AM
A redhead with a ponytail? Sounds like Riho to me.
Kuronekox
0
05/18/2014 08:22 PM
10/10 idea

I like the idea and am gonna download it now and give it a shot.
Dozen
697
05/20/2014 05:15 PM
author=Kuronekox
10/10 idea

I like the idea and am gonna download it now and give it a shot.


^^
Kuronekox
0
05/21/2014 02:14 AM
There should be a tsundere girl. :P
Dozen
697
05/21/2014 11:06 AM
author=Kuronekox
There should be a tsundere girl. :P

There are two of them... And that's only the base material.
Mute
50
05/21/2014 06:04 PM
author=Kuronekox
There should be a tsundere girl. :P
There's only two, sadly. But hey, a custom-content tsundere is always a possibility for anyone who wants to write. Perhaps I should write one..
Kuronekox
0
05/21/2014 08:14 PM
author=Dozen
author=Kuronekox
There should be a tsundere girl. :P
There are two of them... And that's only the base material.

We need a well written tsundere character, though.

author=Mute
author=Kuronekox
There should be a tsundere girl. :P
There's only two, sadly. But hey, a custom-content tsundere is always a possibility for anyone who wants to write. Perhaps I should write one..

I couldn't write one to save anyones life... :<
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
05/22/2014 11:21 AM
author=Kuronekox
author=Dozen
author=Kuronekox
There should be a tsundere girl. :P
There are two of them... And that's only the base material.
We need a well written tsundere character, though.


Well, there's Nemoto Mayu of Uchioniko fame?
Dozen
697
05/22/2014 12:24 PM
author=Kuronekox
We need a well written tsundere character, though.

EXCUSE ME.



Tact is a thing!

Okay, let me lay out some basics.

Every time you give negative feedback and you don't explain your point so we can't learn from it...

Kyouki makes this face.



This.
This is what you've done.
For shame.

Did you want this? Did you want this? I'm guessing you didn't.
Please explain what's wrong with our tsunderes now. So we can rewrite them. Instead of just saying so. 'K?
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